Wednesday, 8 July 2015

June on Planet Hugill - Israel in Egpyt, Death in Venice and Fiddler on the Roof

Welcome
to June on Planet Hugill, where we hit the festival season with Opera
Holland Park, Garsington Opera at Wormsley, Grange Park Opera and
Spitalfields Music Festival, not to forget the London English Song
Festival, and the Voices of London Festival.

Opera Holland Park

Opera Holland Park had a triumphant opening of the season with Puccini's Il Trittico, and they went on to give the first London professional staging of Jonathan Dove's Flight, and their first ever staging of Verdi's Aida at Holland Park.

Garsington

Garsington Opera at Wormsley opened with a rather disappointing country house wedding Cosi fan tutte redeemed by a strong musical performance. Paul Curran's production of Britten's Death in Venice showed a stunning personal vision.

Grange Park Opera

Bryn Terfel's starred as Tevye in the musical Fiddler on the Roof (performed with no amplification), there was a finely balanced new production of La Boheme, and an imaginative re-casting of Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila.

Quickening:

Songs by Robert Hugill to texts by English and Welsh poets now available from Amazon

four delicate, sensitive settings of Ivor Gurney, drawing performances of like quality. - it is Rosalind Ventris’s viola, weaving its way around and between the voice and William Vann’s piano, that is most beguilingGramphone magazine Jan 2018